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the flesh of the fish
that moist, pink, succulent meat
becons me coyly
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a man depriv'd of
enemies becomes a thing
bereft of purpose
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emptiness, the void
desiring to be full, of
longing overflows
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that, which having been,
though time and tide obscure all,
cannot be undone
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one's concept of self
blindly accepted as so
must not be sounded
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pretentious haiku
profound dwells at the finding
denied those who seek
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to believe is choice
incredulity prudence
oness personal
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pajama gram is
victoria's secret for
for repressed people
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knowledge leaves a mark
the known as a catalyst
affects he who knows
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four lines in eight parts
divide equally the whole
many eat the pie
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echos, memories,
monuments, and scars: human
detritus deceives
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man is made of meat
quicken'd of fear and desire
best by them not rul'd
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cannibalism
is truimph of id over
the superego
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lasting, must be spent
to watch so much pass it by
but still to linger
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haiku requires that
inspiration i find my
apathy dispells
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let's all have a call
wherein we can multitask:
doing less with more!
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the only thing one
can posess is time, alas
for time is fleeting
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those who will not do
with their hands' minds will never
grasp what must be done
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observe, imagine,
conceive, plan, build, review, and
finally accept
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to do is to be
for having been i have done
but meaning eludes
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the moments when one
thinks one is completely fuck'd
give one's life the lie
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thoughts require no time;
thinking's the space between thoughts;
bliss nothing at all
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contemplation is
the root of desire, therefore
the cause of sorrow
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mindless toil deafens
those with industrious souls
to the hammer-song
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an act of worship
intended as conference
on one's self bestows
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effluvium red
purple's own prerogative
'neath firmament blue
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need makes imperfect;
by creating; perfection
is oblivion
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dawn, in breaking night
does not end her reveries,
he seals them sacred
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pierce the veil and you
find another awaits: from
unknown to unknown
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take the frontal lobes
they only cause me problems
leave me some pudding
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consume i consume
i consume i consume i
consume i consume
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eventually
i learn'd: understanding is
a change in the meat
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what is here to be?
still? the horror is that you
always will have been
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giving excessive
attention to how one feels
prevents contentment
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does the squirrel think
hoarding for winter's prudent
or just know to do
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ev'ry thing i know
and all i hold dear are vast
simplifications
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give all the water
you like to a drowning man
it will not save him
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needing is needful
without need there is no must
for must needs needing
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expecting too much
is not the same mistake as
asking too little
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fearsome lusty sea
writhing from confinement is
the water of life
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at sanity's edge
most turn back, some press on, and
a rare few break ground
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that, which in the end
remains, demonstrates for us
all the could have been
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in the amoeba
is apparent all of life's
continuity
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certainty becomes
a bastard, denying he
is the son of cause
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there is a moment
crystalline, unknowable
that it comes to be
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verdant, succulent
fauna: ardently vital
of being artless
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to make, grow, or fix
are the roots of all that is
honorable work
-soren
once there was a time
and come what may, which will be,
that time is over
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without the doing
the illusion of purpose
starts to dissipate
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if life is dinner
don't let it be a hot dog
it should be tapas
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seeing all the parts
in a vista all at once;
the see'r must be god
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those trees that bend best
best resist winds: strength is in
rebound not hardness
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a lion's regal
bearing and power do not
create it noble
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giving is ruling
receiving accepts that rule
boon playing boson
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life exists between
the unravelling edge and
annihilation
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if i come to know
the purpose for which i am
i must cease to be
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love is not what one
says or feels or hopes, but what
one chooses to do
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people cling to life
not out of love, but because
they are used to it
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on the threshold of
destruction all things fulfill
the urge that spawned them
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the gossamer thing
that straining sees is not made
more true by longing
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the continuum
fades; cascading failure will
refresh the needful
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embrace life as a
new lover and her sister,
death, as an old friend
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i forgot the words
to convey rumination
by way of haiku
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stand, and be counted
for your measure will be made
standing or kneeling
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young men think honor
lives in glorious moments
old men know better
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no matter the scale
the void fills with being and
being longs for more
-soren
during the green hour
when whispers can overwhelm
time has no meaning
-soren
you may form the world
by your strength of will but not
as a catalyst
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we are made in strife;
bourne through it, refin'd by it,
and it is our doom
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government is god's
gift to man for what almost
happen'd at babel
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honest toil deserves
respect and is an honor
no title commands
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wisdom can be found
in anything if you take
the time to see it
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as one is the thread
and the spinner so all are
both cloth and weaver
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through rushes and calms
being surges ever on
uninterrupted
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being fills its cups
to the measure and the depth
that living provides
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to set the words down
offends the muse; permanence
cannot be inspired
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a man is not whole
but being form'd incomplete
knows not how to be
-soren
sanity is the
greatest coincidence of
our insanity
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spin too many plates
on too many sticks and learn
how to use a broom
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lighten up and do
the doing is more honest
than thoughts in the void
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the fuel comes and goes
the spark is even more brief
the piston remains
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until i grant your
assumptions, your logic is
immaterial
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imagine a day
with its glory or despair
today is that day
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having, from making
as abomination clears
the joy from doing
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for hammers to fall
and form the world once again
they must be lifted
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the rhythm of life
belies continuity
not one, but many
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salmon swim upstream
admirably defiant
still, they end up dead
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mitochondria
make complex life possible
but, what do they want
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truth only affects
the function of the results
not the decisions
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objectivity
is only systematic
subjectivity
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well, there was something
i thought it was important
i can't remember
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all men are vassal
as chosen, so beholden
freedom is binding
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the meaning eludes
but the importance is known
we must meet to talk
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where ever i am
i am not ev'rywhere else
one is mostly not
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work is investment
a job builds no equity
so the west will fail
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the time is finite
but the journey otherwise
so, damn the engines
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with no teeth, a gear
like a tiger, has only
one utility
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success is achiev'd
through the accretion of one's
incomplete failures
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with dedication
and purity of purpose
one becomes mighty
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autodidactic
sesquipedalianism
perforce defines us
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sleep comes, for dreams must
subject reality to
the rule of Sobek
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the mind of god is
ev'ry possible event
this is but one such
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oh, captain red-shirt
how is it you spend yourself
choose or dissipate
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stretch a man enough
and his ego becomes clear
so that he can see
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stop light by proxy
acquires authority from
brake light's promise kept
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we, as i, speak of
my concept of us as though
edges make us one
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do not seek surety
no solace has certainty
save oblivion
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man is an iceberg
in the light and in shadow
forever melting
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things must be broken
to know their strength: let us hope
we prove strong enough
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breathe become hollow
emptiness yearns to be full
allow for nothing
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when the void is pure
the stillness a sacred place
enter and abide
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there to be master
holding the horrors at bay
wrest them to the grave
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sentience forgets
to live, infinitively
thinking of thinking
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oh prandial joy
carbohydrates declare it
let there be pastry
-soren
pray, do not confuse
the turning one might want with
that which one must choose
-soren
thankless, the ninja
is only remembered
when something goes wrong?
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craven hoplophobe
no proclamation serves to
diminish your shame
-soren
neither ways nor means
suffice for freedom, only
the mast'ry of fear
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no more the sentence
well-crafted or otherwise
kill'd by bullet points
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the most noble deed
earns no honor, sacrifice
by nature is mute
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argentine iron
newly smelted and ductile
is full of promise
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this chain of events
extends through the horizons
ending only now
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death compels us all
none have mastery of it
life merely beckons
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i saw them speaking
the space betwixt pregnant with
singularity
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within the lattice
the data forces itself
between all the points
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gravity defies
all attempts to integrate
universal force
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damocles' blade looms
in endless iterations
it falls only once
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i have come to fear
that the songs good to sing are
no so good to hear
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depreciate cause
for it is impertinent
accept the effect
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no haiku this week
too many things to process
but wait, what is this?
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i see the faces
but must remember also
to perceive the hands
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when there is no time
and poor work begets more work
then there is no time
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sans joie de vivre
la contrainte pour survivre
la seule chose qui reste
-soren
living for something
is a nobler sacrifice
than dying for it
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copacetic chimp
capering confidently
cannot comprehend
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between opposites
and near to oblivion
lies something like peace
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is there nothing left?
or do i desire it so?
why does it vex me?
-soren
where waves coincide
their urging becomes demand
who then can prevail?
-soren
measuring wisdom
is divining the prism
of the objective
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glory is purpose
refin'd to a single point
in execution
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float on the ether
while away whilst marching on
renew'd perspective
-soren
name no more heroes
nor decry any villain
treat with each as met
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why is it for me
to acquire all those duties
cast off in neglect?
-soren
that i must not do
does not per force require that
i should not have done
-soren
from forgetfulness
the heart of longing espies
the id ascendant
-soren
wo Ãœbermenschen
nicht von den Göttern Befehl
es kommt aus dem Selbst
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anger unblemish’d
a fire without inclusion
is cold fear at heart
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water finds its place
with the vessel transcended
it remains the same
-soren
sanguine victory
separates paying the price
from counting the cost
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fine composition
makes good on its promise but
not as expected
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purpose fulfill'd
is a beauty to witness
effort vouchsafed
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precious molecules
cascading chemistry calls
compelling the free
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whatever you do
remember to never stop
at top dead center
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sea shells bear witness
even when nothing is left
still something remains
-soren
classing the subsets
cross-referencing the known
allows abstract thought
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once i was a child
memories are photographs
but of someone else
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sad is perception
from interpretation not
reflective of state
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for just a moment
the waves were coincident
need gave way to calm
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as it grows colder
boots that usually squish
clop in their resolve
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betrayal means trust
doubly painful because it
impugns one's judgment
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truth does not matter
this moment's perception is
the only real thing
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once one comprehends
the mechanics of the loom
the weave becomes choice
-soren
it is always wise
to understand one's own fear
not so to face it
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reality is
in light of certain patterns
most improbable
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elegant design
interoperable and
unilinear
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freedom is needed
so one may find one's virtue
not one's happiness
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words are air, mixing
images are light, and light
changes with the times
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man is a river
he goes where he is going
but is where he's been
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in order to solve
first one must accept what is
know the attributes
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one is an aspect
information is unique
matter's transition
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i enter budgets
but they will not reconcile
it causes the angst
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within a moment
of careful contemplation
a cosmos flowers
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philosopher king
is very different from
king philosopher
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tell me a story
speak a world into being
there you are a god
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iron gives its all
all that which it was given
always, without fail
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at the most holy
priests, altars, and offerings
cease to be distinct
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for men to be peers
they must form a brotherhood
sharing common cause
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beauty, as the storm
looks like sky rent by chaos
yet smells like order
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prey may give its life
the predator, in return
gives that life meaning
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sublime in thinness
force of being may become
awful in focus
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it is what it is
conversely one considers
it is that it is
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pain is of the mind
fatigue is in the body
man exists between
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oh telemetry
do not deny me your voice
nor coy whisperings
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sawyers ply their saws
to such ends that there are planks
what from lawyers' ply?
-soren
embrace life's labors
they add salt to living and
sweetness to leisure
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love surveys itself
yet it beholds another
and self becomes means
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no drop of water
is possess'd of destiny
yet the tide shall change
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there is no control
one's influence conditions
only likelihood
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seeking is the joy
finding, like having, is but
a necessity
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i choose to believe
that mankind shall achieve grace
and therein purpose
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my mistakes provide
a space to define myself
if i can grasp it
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death is the payment
not for having liv'd a life
but for life to be
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i can know my worth
only by my impact on
that which i value
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the water, it knows
being there from end to end
but feeling nothing
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possibility
in certain uncertainty
can not may is must
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say, lonesome road cone
abandon'd at the shoulder
how come you to this
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i am now a shell
a remnant of those things that
I thought I might be
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the ache in waiting
at the edge of suspicion
is like awe at dawn
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curiosity
as I am told, kill'd the cat
but it makes the man
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air is a puzzle
yielding both calm and livid
always prevailing
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who, like a wave's peak
beholding the land must crest
forgetting the sea
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symbols and numbers
immiscible fluids swirl
broth cognition's soup
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anthropomorphic
eviscerated squashes
waylay fear with flesh
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stone at land's end knows
victory in each moment
even in defeat
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one cannot win but
one can lose in newly found
interesting ways
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one must not value
the rule higher than the need
that brought it about
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contemplate clockwork's
admirable elegance
a loss to be mourn'd
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time in mind is space
needful for improving one's
concentricity
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walmart teaches me
sometimes about others but
mostly about me
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my enemy is
but an avatar for my
self i will not see
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load equalizes
sufficient incompetence
taints all those involv'd
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when i think of them
i build a wall; forgetting
they are us to them
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the wise are aware
the blessed undisturb'd yet
all are lost at sea
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absolute fineness
is often valued over
the love in the craft
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whilst i have my thoughts
perhaps instead the truth is
that my thoughts have me
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that which i behold
becomes all that there is, still
so much is hidden
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the vanishing point
of meaning and artifice
has always been faith
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thus far, it appears,
i have perceiv'd little and
comprehended less
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some things, i have seen
in immutable cosmos
i have caus'd to be
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epicurean
endeavors must in time yield
to stoicism
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people can believe
without cause, despite reason
with perfect purpose
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one can be convinc'd
mov'd, believe; so to master
born fear and desire
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brav'ry is the choice
'txixt unbearable losses
made in the mettle
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all amazement lies
beyond imagination
waiting for a choice
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why does it matter?
see in this moment, the next
now is forever
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one becomes adult
by learning to serve a goal
one can never see
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seeking to die well
one might find that one lives well
incidentally
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who is happiest
one that has what he wants or
one without desire
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with every choice
one's options are winnow'd down
until there are none
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that which is most sought
to become reality
cannot be the goal
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kindness is selfish
and selfishness is not kind
but what do i learn
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like surface ripples
the remains of our lives are
wakes in the cosmos
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struggles long waiting
chrysalis rouses at last
to dreams on the wing
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what would i purchase
out of all that i might want
if it cost my life
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each choice has a cost
and all things have their value
but price is neither
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lightning is the sky
venting its anxiety
back on to the earth
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building a process
streamlin’d, simple, and precise
opens a new way
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